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July 17, 2014Tinley Park, Illinois
Success Knows No Gender: Projects for Nontraditional Occupations
Learners and Others
Presented by Ne'Keisha N. Stepney, MBA,
Waubonsee Community Collegeand
Aimee Julian, PHD Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support, ICSPS
Welcome
• Overview of ICSPS and Special Populations
• Description of Nontraditional Occupations
• Waubonsee Community College’s New Look Project Impact
ICSPS
The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) provides
professional development, technical assistance, and program improvement strategies and resources for
career and technical education professionals.
ICSPS provides services to secondary and postsecondary educational
organizations through the Educational Administration and Foundations
Department of the College of Education
at Illinois State University.
Special Populations
The following are special populations as defined by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006.
Displaced homemakersIndividuals with limited English proficiencyIndividuals with disabilitiesIndividuals from economically disadvantaged
familiesIndividuals preparing for nontraditional fieldsSingle parents
Quick Facts on Nontraditional Occupations
A non-traditional occupation is one in which one gender comprises 25 percent or less of total employment
25% of what?
What data determines whether or not an occupation is non-traditional?
25% of what?
What data determines whether or not an occupation is non-traditional?A. US Department of Education:
enrollment by Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
B. US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Code by Gender
C. Women’s Bureau of the US Department of Labor
CTE at Waubonsee
• Dedicated academic divisions– Business and Career Technologies– Health Professions and Public Service
• Office of Career and Technical Education– Vice President, CTE– Perkins Analyst– High School Partnerships
• Addressing the skills gap: Untapped talent
Limitless Possibilities: Men in Health Information Technology
• Health Information Careers– Lack of knowledge about the profession
• Career Guidance– Educate counselors
• Barriers and Misconceptions– Role models– Realistic viewpoint
Administrative Office SUCCESS
• Building Self-Confidence, Understanding, Courage, Charity, Esteem, Self-Acceptance, and a Sense of Direction
• Issues– Preconceived notions
• Actions– Data collection, analysis and
identification of barriers• Future plans
Women in Manufacturing: 21st Century View
• Issues– Awareness
• Action: Inform, Create, and Collaborate– Panel discussion– Positive messages – Secondary partners
• Q&A session• Field trips
Women make up almost half of the
country’s workforce but only a quarter of the manufacturing
industry’s workforce!
Women in Manufacturing: Talking Points • What is your educational background?• Why you decided to go into your current field?• What does the day-to-day looks like?• How do you feel working in a male dominated
industry?• What do you feel the future looks like for women
in the industry?• Which classes students should focus on?• What are essential skills for the industry?• What was the influence of your mentor/role
model?• How did you take risks?
So what does it all mean…?
• How are we marketing programs?• Are we providing exploratory opportunities?• Are we unconsciously sending biased
messages?• What early interventions are in place?
Are we challenging students to… STRETCH?
Looking Forward • Retention• Special populations programming
– Panel discussions, speaker series, 1cr. hour seminar course, field trips, guest speakers, tinkering
• Improving programs through a special populations lens– Recognition that other populations will be impacted
• Gender specific marketing• Foster collaboration with secondary partners
– Parental involvement• Project alignment with other strategic initiatives• Positive role models• Dual credit opportunities• Cultural Competence
Engage, encourage…retain!
Questions?
Thank you.
For more information visit…
• https://www.waubonsee.edu/ • http://icsps.illinoisstate.edu/
Thank you!